“Vladimir Putin, at the beginning of the presidency, expected that Russia could enter the North Atlantic Alliance,” said the former NATO head in 1999-2004 George Robertson, RIA Novosti reports with a link to One Decision Podcast.
According to Robertson, Putin, at their first meeting, expressed the desire to make Russia part of Western Europe, but changed his views due to the “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine.
Politician noted that the political and financial intervention of the Alliance in the Kremlin.
Previously, the spokesman for the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that NATO was not created for the world, but confrontation. According to him, the Russian leadership never feeds illusions in relation to the alliance.